Race Rights Reparations

This book considers institutional racism as a problem that exists within modern societies which has its roots in the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. The book has four themes: the first considers the nature of institutional racism, the second theme looks at instances of institutional racism through matters such as deaths in custody

In this new book Fernne Brennan has made an important and highly original contribution to the study of institutional racism . She links this insidious phenomenon, which first came to public awareness in 1999 through the Macpherson Report on the failure of the police following the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, to the issue of reparations for slavery. Brennan has already made a significant contribution to this field by editing, with John Packer, the collection Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the Past? (Routledge 2012). This new book, passionately argued and supported by wide-ranging research, analyses institutional racism as a modern legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. It is not simply a work of legal history. Brennan goes further: she provides carefully considered proposals for reparation, meeting the many objections which have been made. Brennan identifies a new social movement for reparations, on a global scale. Readers will be challenged and, I hope, inspired by Brennan's work. Professor Bill Bowring, Barrister, Director of the LLM/MA in Human Rights, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

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Fernne Brennan is Senior Lecturer in Law, head of the Slave Trade Reparations Project (STeR) @ www.essex.ac.uk/reparation, School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK. She has written on and regularly speaks on the subject of race crime, institutional racism, and reparations.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Nature of Institutional Racism

Chapter 3: Institutional Racism and Cyber Race Hate

Chapter 4: Institutional Racism and Markets

Chapter 5: The Race Directive Recycling the Legacy of Institutional Racism

Chapter 6: Black Custodial Deaths as an Instance of Institutional Racism

Chapter 7: Institutional Racism as a Current and Continuing Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Skin Bleaching and Hair Straightening

Chapter 8: The Moral, Legal and Political Case for Reparations for the Legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Chattel Slavery

Chapter 9: Social Movements to Global Movements

Chapter 10: Conclusion